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December 22, 2008

Video: From Rural America: Ideas for new Secretary of Ag

Last Wednesday, President Elect Barack Obama announced Gov. Tom Vilsack from Iowa as the new Secretary of Agriculture. In rural Oklahoma, indeed most of rural America, young people are leaving to find better lives for themselves in urban areas. The incentive to stay in their hometown or return after college is limited and new farm blood is hard to come by.

But according to Oklahoma conservationist farmers Clay and Sarah Pope there is ample opportunity to revitalize rural America, retain youth, and bring in new blood.

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September 11, 2007

Oklahoma farmers and ranchers to receive USDA assistance

Oklahoma City – In response to a request from Gov. Brad Henry, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has declared 75 of Oklahoma’s 77 counties disaster areas, making farmers and ranchers eligible for assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture.

The two counties not included in the disaster declaration – Pontotoc and Pushmataha – will be named as contiguous counties, making farmers and ranchers in every county eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the USDA, provided eligibility requirements are met.

“This designation will not solve every problem that confronts Oklahoma farmers and ranchers, but it is a step in the right direction,” Gov. Henry said. “Oklahoma has seen some remarkable weather this year, and that has taken a toll on Oklahoma’s individual agricultural producers and an industry that is vital to our state.”

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Filed under: Brad Henry, Farmers — Posted at 3:01 pm by C. W. McBlackville